"This dance for us represents a way to vent, to forget for a little while all the stress we've been under for the past year," said Sabiha, a 21-year-old university student who protested Friday in front of the Education Ministry against the minister's investigation, performing a version of the dance.

Her colleague Saber, 24, who also did not want his last name used because of the tensions surrounding the song, said being able to dance like this was a fruit of Tunisia's revolution.

"We wanted to take advantage of our newfound freedoms thanks to the revolution, after the years of harassment and repression," he said.

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Associated Press writer Paul Schemm contributed to this story from Rabat, Morocco.